Toledo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF GHGHHH IHIHHBHB| Three widows of the Middle West | A |
| We're grimly chewing gum | B |
| The Lido chef a quail had dressed | A |
| With garlic and with rum | B |
| And they were painfully oppressed | A |
| For they had eaten some | B |
| - | |
| Said One This famed El Greco guy | C |
| Gives me the blessed pip | D |
| Them Saints look like they want to die | C |
| Let's give our guide the slip | D |
| And in some bodega close by | C |
| A glass of vino sip | D |
| - | |
| Said Two It's this Cathedral stuff | E |
| That fairly gets me down | F |
| I think one church is quite enough | E |
| In any Spanish town | F |
| But here there's four that's pretty tough | E |
| No matter their renown | F |
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| Said Three It's that Alc aacute zar show | G |
| That simply knocked me out | H |
| That dismal dungeon down below | G |
| Then ruins all about | H |
| That funny fat old Moscardo | H |
| Who put the Reds to rout | H |
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| Hey Mister Guide implored the Three | I |
| Return to gay Madrid | H |
| The guide was shocked but trained was he | I |
| To do as he was bid | H |
| So three dames of the Middle West | H |
| Dyspeptically glum | B |
| Went back to town and quite depressed | H |
| The guide was chewing gum | B |
Robert Service
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